Developing Online Platforms, Building Community
From the site that brought you eight different news feeds in six months, comes a wonderful new toy. A profile dedicated not to what you are, but everything you have ever been. Timelines, introduced last week through developer beta, have been getting a lot of press – but what might they actually mean for your [...]
This week’s #blogchat focused on engagement – comments got all the cred. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised – comments are great. They exist on your platform, they’re relatively long-form compared to some other reactions (like tweets and Facebook comments), but it felt like the really big, high caliber blog engagement actions were missing. What [...]
When I started blogging in 1998, it was on free services designed for just that thing. I walled my garden, created a “locked” blog, which only my friends could read. Then, sometime around 1999, more of my friends complained that they wanted to read what I was writing. So I opened up my privacy settings. [...]
I’ve been waiting for These Hopeful Machines since – well, since This Binary Universe came out in 2006! I’m always waiting for new BT. ‘m waiting for nis next album now, and I’ve owned These Hopeful Machines just long enough to have listened through the whole thing, #tweetreview-ed it, and loaded up to write this! [...]
Facebook’s Automated Censorship Kerfuffle
If you’ve been anywhere near where I’ve been over the weekend, you’ll have seen this article on Dangerous Minds about Facebook removing a photo of two men kissing. From the article: [...] it seems that the sight of two fully-clothed men kissing was too much for Facebook, or too much for some redacted [...] who complained [...]